Trump is not toilet-trained
Say you’re Trump and you want to get rid of certain telltale notes – what do you do? You stuff them down the toilet, of course, flush once and walk away.
Remember our toilet scoop in Axios AM earlier this year? Maggie Haberman’s forthcoming book about former President Trump will report that White House residence staff periodically found wads of paper clogging a toilet — and believed the former president, a notorious destroyer of Oval Office documents, was the flusher.
For the compelling reason that nobody else would be that stupid.
Haberman — who obtained the photos recently — shared them with us ahead of the Oct. 4 publication of her book, “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.”
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Haberman’s sources report the document dumps happened multiple times at the White House, and on at least two foreign trips.
“That Mr. Trump was discarding documents this way was not widely known within the West Wing, but some aides were aware of the habit, which he engaged in repeatedly,” Haberman tells us.
“It was an extension of Trump’s term-long habit of ripping up documents that were supposed to be preserved under the Presidential Records Act.”
And of his lifelong habit of ripping up anything he feels like ripping up because that’s the kind of guy he is.
This is profound stuff, given that Trump has been afflicted all his life by mental constipation. That the archive housing the documentary record of his presidency is not some grandiose gold-plated building, but instead a plain old ordinary sewer pipe, confirms that he was just a simple ordinary feller never above the mainstream: in fact somewhere well below it, in the bowels of the Earth.
Perhaps the king and queen of the local sewer rats proudly serve as his chief archivists, ever conscious of the honour bestowed upon them, and commanding a huge staff, not of the species Rattus rattus, but a new glorious offshoot to be duly classified by the rodent taxonomists as Rattus trumpus.
Sewer pipe as archive – it’s almost poetic in its perfection.
Ok, Trump may have been destroying some paper files, but at least his administration didn’t fail to observe optimal email server management practices!
(Oh, wait, it did. But that’s only a problem when a Democrat does it.)
That raises a question for me. Normally, a bit after a President leaves office, there is discussion about them setting up a Presidential library. That hasn’t happened with Trump as far as I’ve heard. Is that because he might run again, or is it because there’s no material to put in it?
Rob,
They need to wait another 20 years to mine enough gold to use for the Trump Presidential Library.
The most perfect, beautiful library anyone has seen, ever. Grown men, big tough guys, come up to me with tears in their eyes saying it’s the most amazing library.
It will have five sections: Man, Woman, Person, Camera, TV.
And all the books Trump ever read.
The Trump Presidential Library hasn’t been built yet, but you can already order the T-shirt.
So it’s the Donald Trump John/Presidential Library
Heh
Ok, Screechy, you made me laugh out loud.
WaM, that will be confined to an empty shelf in the cleaners cupboard.
It would be the Anti-Library
https://ncse.ngo/anti-museum